We have received confirmation of the death on Monday of Werner Hink, a cherished member of the Vienna Philharmonic from 1965.
Hink, who was 81, was hugely influential at the Pacific Music Festival Sapporo, where he taught from 1991 to 2010.
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Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs; The Sixteen; Harry Christophers; COROReviewed 22 July 2024 by Tony Coooper Punctuating Sir Charles Villiers Stanford’s centenary, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have just issued 17 première recordings of his […]
Early in his international career, Valery Gergiev professed himself a Mahler enthusiast and conducted the symphonies with great engagement whenever he got the opportunity. For the past three years, as a Putin collaborator, he has […]
Mozart’s Idomeneo is regarded as his first mature opera, written for Munich in 1781. The subject may not have been Mozart’s choice but it represents the composers continuing engagement with Italian opera seria, a style that […]
